I stand by every decision I've made throughout my career and my life, good or bad, up or down.

With Whitesnake it would have been inappropriate for me to have played Deep Purple songs, although I did at the beginning because I didn't have enough Whitesnake songs.

Not necessarily, a lot of my songs are firmly tongue in cheek.

I saw what Purple meant to people and I still hear it now when I'm in Europe. I'm always shocked that I'm still asked about Purple because it was such a long time ago.

All my vocals were recorded at home, which was great for me. You can actually have a studio in a computer program called ProTools. I did half the record with ProTools.

I've always loved music, very simply, as a vehicle to express myself and that hasn't changed.

Amateurs in professional situations make me very impatient.